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UK
/ɪnkəmpˈætəbəl/
]
[ US /ˌɪnkəmˈpætəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnkəmˈpætəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- not compatible with other facts
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of words so related that one contrasts with the other
`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms -
not suitable to your tastes or needs
the uncongenial roommates were always fighting
the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs -
not in keeping with what is correct or proper
completely inappropriate behavior - incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
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not compatible
incompatible personalities
incompatible colors - used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
- not easy to combine harmoniously
- used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture
How To Use incompatible In A Sentence
- Such a level of monitoring is not only impracticable; it is incompatible with intellectual freedom.
- The Prime Minister, who seems to make a fetish of showing that power is not incompatible with panache, is (or so his spokesman says) a Stones fan.
- To be reliable, a cognitive mechanism must enable a person to discriminate or differentiate between incompatible states of affairs.
- In a capitalist country, political dictatorship is not incompatible with economic modernisation and can even facilitate it.
- The modified expoxies, ie, those with plasticizers added to improve workability, were found to be incompatible with the fluorocarbon flotation fluids.
- The two needs seem incompatible, but somehow we will manage it. Times, Sunday Times
- I was indeed incommunicative and incompatible with the kids at my grade level.
- Remember also that many disk and other utility programs are incompatible, this is not necessarily a problem as they are largely redundant.
- Not only would it look out of place, says the conservation panel, but it would be incompatible with grazing livestock.
- Moral pluralism asserts the existence of a multitude of incompatible but morally valuable forms of life.
